Can a leopard change its spots? A critical analysis of the World Bank’s ‘progressive universalism’ approach to social protection
Daisy Sibun is the author of ‘Can a leopard change its spots? A critical analysis of the World Bank’s ‘progressive universalism’ approach to social protection’. The paper critically analyses the...
Social security and Chile’s constitution: new book
As one of 50 experts from around the world, our Senior Social Policy Specialist Alexandra Barrantes has written an article in a new Spanish-language book, Derechos sociales y el momento...
Towards universal social protection
Universality, or the achievement of universal social protection, has been endorsed by the international community and in the region as a key objective of social protection. Solidarity and trust in public systems, including through universal social protection, will underpin the advancement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, understanding often remains unclear around what universality entails in terms of systems, schemes, combinations of non-contributory and contributory benefits, and eligibility.
Steps to Inclusive Social Protection Systems
The Steps to Inclusive Social Protection Systems sets out 12 milestones for developing an integrated and sustainable social protection system
Empowering Cambodians with disabilities through social protection
Findings from interviews with 12 Cambodian organisations for persons with disabilities on how to improve the social protection system.
Protecting human rights during economic crises
What can we learn from 2022's economic crises? This 2-page brief sets out countries' social security responses to those crises: what is working and what isn't to protect populations.
Upcoming webinar: Exploring economic and fiscal constraints and possibilities
On 8 February at 11am GMT, the Inclusive Social Security Policy Forum (ISSPF) in the MENA region is holding the webinar 'Inclusive social security: exploring economic and fiscal constraints and possibilities'.
The pleonasm of shock-responsive social protection
Three Christmases ago, I wrote a blog post about all the oxymorons involved in social protection! I refrained from naming names, but I provided a number of examples of commonly used phrases that were oxymoronic. An oxymoron, as a reminder, is a phrase that is inherently self-contradictory: “deafening silence”, “painfully...
A conversation with Peter Muraya
Peter Muraya is a student from Njoro, in the Rift Valley of Kenya. He was involved in a train accident when he was 13, which left him without three limbs: without two legs and a hand. The accident meant that Peter didn’t pass his exams as expected. He did however manage...
Our commitments at the Global Disability Summit 2022
To mark the 2022 Global Disability Summit today, we are making five commitments to people with disabilities.